Some decisions have to be made this week as we vote in the DIA rankings.

First off, we're happy to see #1-ranked Life take the field, and with a win over #5 Navy Life stays #1. But those teams that aren't playing continue to be vulnerable. Is the Saint Mary's team of 2019-2020 the #3 team in the country? Maybe. Maybe once the Gaels get going. But other teams have been active, and with Navy's close loss to Life (five points), we feel we need to move them up (and also Lindenwood, who beat Navy last week).

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The other ranking that gave us headaches was Army-Notre Dame College-Penn State. Army lost to Notre Dame College, who lost to Penn State, who lost this past weekend to Army. All of the games were fairly close, although this weekend's 31-14 Army win was less close than the other games.

Complicating matters is the common opponent issue. While the three teams had relatively comparable results against Mary Washington and Kutztown, NDC's 32-12 loss to St. Bonaventure throws the calculations a little out of whack, as Penn State and Army both beat SBU and by almost identical scores.

But we also have Notre Dame College tying Davenport, a team that beat Penn State by 32. In the end we started with the premise that the Davenport results are correctly indicative of where Davenport is—tied with Notre Dame College and ahead of Penn State. We struggled with the St. Bonaventure result, but that result was on September 21, and the other common results are much more in favor of NDC than they are SBU.

In common results between Army, Penn State, and Notre Dame College, all three were 1-1, with Army having the best points-difference (+12) and Penn State the worst (-11).  It's very, very tight, but we have to take into account results now over older results. Army lost to Notre Dame College on October 5. Penn State beat NDC on September 14. Army beat Penn State on November 9.

Goff Rugby Report D1A Rankings: Week 10
Rank	Prev	Team	Notes
1	1	Life	Beat Navy (5)
2	2	Cal	7s
3	4	Lindenwood
4	5	Navy	Lost to Life (1)
5	3	St Mary's
6	6	Kutztown
7	7	Arkansas State	Beat Arkansas
8	12	Army	Beat Penn State (9)
9	8	BYU	Beat Utah Valley (37)
10	10	Davenport	Beat Clemson (23)
10	10	Notre Dame College	Beat Mary Washington (31)
12	9	Penn State	Lost to Army (12)
13	13	Iona	Beat Fairfield (44)
14	14	Indiana	Beat Ohio State (15)
15	15	Ohio State	Lost to Indiana (14)
16	16	Colorado	Beat Utah State
17	21	Illinois	Beat Michigan (35)
18	17	Arizona	7s
19	18	Colorado State
20	19	Notre Dame
Goff Rugby Report D1A Rankings: Week 10
21	20	UCLA	7s
22	22	Central Washington
23	23	Grand Canyon
24	24	Clemson	Lost to Davenport (10)
25	25	Texas A&M	Beat Baylor
26	26	St. Bonaventure
27	30	Northeastern	Beat AIC (36)
28	29	Boston College	Beat Syracuse (27)
29	28	Oklahoma	Beat North Texas
30	38	Wisconsin	Beat Michigan State (34)
31	27	Syracuse	Lost to Boston College (29)
32	31	Mary Washington	Lost to Notre Dame College (10)
33	32	UC Davis
34	33	San Diego State
35	49	Texas	Beat LSU
36	35	Michigan	Beat Michigan Sate (34), lost to Illinois (21)
37	36	American International College	Lost to Northeastern (30)
38	37	Utah Valley	Lost to BYU (8)
39	39	Fordham	Lost to Iona (13)
40	40	Air Force	Beat Wyoming
Goff Rugby Report D1A Rankings: Week 10